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<overview>

<p>

Splitting a long string literal over multiple lines can often aid readability,

but this also makes it difficult to notice whether a space is missing where the

strings are concatenated.

</p>

</overview>

<recommendation>

<p>

Check the string literal to see whether it has the intended text.

In particular, look for missing spaces near line breaks.

</p>

</recommendation>

<example>

<p>

The following example shows a text literal that is split over two lines and

omits a space character between the two words at the line break.

</p>

<sample src="examples/MissingSpaceInAppend.js" />

</example>

<references>

<li>Mozilla Developer Network:

<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String#Long_literal_strings">Strings: Long literal strings</a>.

</li>

</references>

</qhelp>